Easel-support.



No. 773,177. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904.

H. L. WILSON. EASBL SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 25, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY L. WILSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO HUGH SHEPHERD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

EASEL-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,177, dated October 25, 1904.

Application filed September 26, 1903. Serial No. 174,834- (No model.)

To all w/m'nt it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY L. WILsoN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Easel-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an easel-support for exhibiting cards or other articles: and its object is to provide a support adapted to be made out of a single sheet of cardboard or other material and which shall possess maximum stability, be capable of unfolding into fiat form, so as to pack in a small space, and be held together without the use of separate fastening devices, such as staples or rivets.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved easel-support in a flat or unfolded state. Fig. 9. is a side elevation thereof in operative form. Fig. 3 is a perspective view.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The easel-support comprises a front plate or section composed of upper and lower portions a a, separated by a recess, as seen in Fig. 2; side wings, flaps, or standards Z) 6, hinged to said upper and lower portions of the plate a a along the broken lines d (Z in Fig. 1, and a standard locking-tongue 0, hinged on the horizontal broken line f, Fig. 1, to the upper edge of the lower portion of the front plate a a and extending backwardly,

as seen in Fig. 2, to engage the edges of thestandards Z) Z). The tongue 0 is formed with parallel slits e c, which receive the edges of the standards 6 and hold the latter in parallel relation at right angles to the front plate a, the margins of the slits e e acting as two pairs of abutments or jaws, which straddle the standard b. The plane of the lower edges of the standards 6 is inclined tothe front plate a a, the latter being thereby inclined to the baseplane of the easel-support, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

This device is preferably made from a single sheet of material, such as cardboard, and in that event the standards 6 and lockingcutting the C-shaped cleft g in the flat piece of material seen in Fig. 1. When, therefore, the standards 5 b are bent back along their hinge-lines and the tongue 0 is bent back to engage'the said standards, a gap or recess is formed between the upper and lower portions of the front plate a and the front edge of each of the standards 5 is a straight line interrupted by a reentrant line.

In the operation of this device it is intended to paste or otherwise secure the front plate a to the back of the card or other device to be displayed. The cards with these easel-supports attached may then be packed close together, since the parts of the easel-support will all unfold into the same plane while attached to the card.

The construction above described may be varied considerably Without departing from the idea contained in my invention.

I claim- 1. Acard-exhibitingeasel-supportcomprising a front plate inclined to the base-plane of the easel-support, a side standard hinged to said plate along an upright edge of the latter, and a hinged looking-tongue-in a plane transverse to said standard formed with aslit which receives said standard to lock the latter against pivotal movement.

2. Acard-exhibitingeasel-support comprising a front plate inclined to the base-plane of the easel-support, side standardshinged thereto, and a hinged locking-tongue having two sets of jaws straddling the respective standards for maintaining the latter in a fixed angular relation to the front plate.

3. Acard-exhibitingeasel-support comprising a front plate inclined to the base-plane of the easel-support, side standards crease-hinged thereto, and-a crease-hinged locking-tongue having two sets of jaws "straddling the respective standards, all of said partsbeing integral portions of the same sheet of material.

4:. Acard-exhibiting easel-support eompristhe standards, all of said parts being integral ing a front plate inclined to the base-plane of portions of the same sheet of material. IO the easel support, parallel side standards In testimony whereof I have afiixed my sigerease-hinged to said plate, and a backwardlynature in presence of two Witnesses.

extending standard locking-tongue erease- HARRY L. WILSON. hinged to the plate above said base-plane on Witnesses:

a substantially horizontal axis and formed LEO M. GOULSTON,

with parallel slits which receive the edges of OLIVE Gr. HERRIGK. 

